| Show WAS BANISHED ED Got Strictly the Worst W of it in ill HELD UP t UD D AND AUD THROWN IN JAIL JAU AS FIRST FERST CLASS HOBO r t left the Windy City With Revenge in n His Bis Heart and Beat His is Way to Detroit Met With a Smuggler Went Back Dack to Scene cene of Former Tribulations a Became me Forgiving 4 New N York Sun un unOn One On time I P pod passed OO d Chicago up uS be because beCause because Cause cause the con tt ted authorities there thereof of ot that I 1 hed to t elect with my votes treated me rue real rude and mean remarked No 22 2 of the Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates Degen rates flick ing lug the ash ah of an expensive cigar off the lapel laDel lu el of his hia fancy waistcoat Said I to Chicago that time You wont do youre scratched and I J went right away just as aa mad as aa I could be soI so I was But say aay it was fierce the way I got jerked around round for a farmer faymer that time Right in irs the town that thai I 1 was vas born in too Right In the middle of o the Levee Levee Well Weil anyhow one Saturday night In iw the fall fail of 90 80 I was walking up State Stat street with 48 in my outdoor pa james jamas and nd just the pristine beau teens beginning of one of those things Id only had twentysix to the best t of Y ny remembrance so that at every step ep I could just throw back my head bead and hear bear the music I was going to my room at that with an armful o 0 new haberdashery that Id got down town After four months on lake water Id just taken those twentysix on or knock ing lag oft off work that evening for the nur r PO 3 of temporarily effacing the gray somber hues of the game as it was wan running of blotting out for the time being a 8 too powerful appreciation of the ineffable sorrow of this thia life as she is lived by Walt Wait a minute exclaimed No 7 the parliamentarian and kicker Aan Am Am I to understand that tat these meetings are ara going gol to be oe allowed to tote degenerate te into exploitations of f Long SIJ on the part of every that The Tile will place No 7 1 in the thC chilled antechamber for twelve minutes for lodging a frivolous protest said the chief rising and ana frowning severely will proceed After the parliamentarian and an l kick kicker kickem er em had been dragged dragg d from the room into the cold storage compartment ex ox Task Tank No 22 proceeded Held Up Tip Like a Farmer Well rei I decided to make mak it twenty seven ODd and no wore rore end 2nd ui Ut around Madison street t I vent rent in ard got the and stud pulled out my 48 18 to liquidate for the same having no scrap metal In my change pocket It was waa about 9 at night and there rent ao SO o many bulb lights around that way as there are now and I any moren got out of the door I was keeping on my course coune as if I Iwas Iwas Iwas was stepping rail fences when I was necked What dye think of that Me necked that had been up against everything in this town from the days h George Hankins was wa well I got mine there and then just as if Id only stepped off the ferry th first time itt in straight from Painted Post or at Peoria or Peru Ind Irid And I got It right There were two of cm tom and while one of them held In my lid back so that I could have seen the nails in the heels of my shoes if it had bei light enough the other one just his fingers around round that roll roH as h tr he knew more about where it was than I did did which he be no o doubt dott did di This 1111 Is ia too much of the batter for you to have ha ye on you all at one and the same time Tommy the chap who copped my iny wad had bad tho the gall gaN to aay y to me while the other fellow feU ow was won still stUl necking me You got a lint Hut to star starboard board boad now pow from pocking packing it around And look took how we need d n the money too Then Than my m head was wa suddenly re released leased this all aU happened in a dark doorway into which f t was yanked and andI I got ot a 8 hardi jolt on the left ear and then another one on ou the right and how howlong howlong howlong long I leaned up against that doorway making a map m of the Milk Milky Way from those two hard pushes I dont know known It n waa wai long enough for the pair of cheerful to min mis mingle minKle gle Kle with the madding crowd anyhow I stooped down picked up the bundle of haberdashery that I had dropped and I Iwas Iwas was waa getting real rel med mad every minute I like Uke insolvency brought broU ht about that way which was worse w than be being being being ing left at the post So I went into the booze bazaar where I had encircled encircled cled clod that th and last and threw thre r a warm personally conducted symposium of conversation at the low forhead d behind the par bar barSay Say I asked him are you in on these grafts and if you are do I get geta et a discount for cash Got the Gaze Then I tossed him the story ory of how I had got t mine just outside his place by a couple of gumshoe artists that I maintained were kept there by the theman theman theman man behind the bar for the purpose of annexing good things that th t came that way The rough neck behind the bar gave me me the gaze U 4 Paz Pass out de side gate Archie an ansee ansee ansee see how bow de do holdin boldin up said he placing his countenance within two and anda a quarter inches of mine Went away wile its easy rr fr youse too Youse Toune aint been rolled none around dis din hon Take de do exit or Til ru come aroun an dent up yam yer shins But the rS Ven that I had hd stowed beneath my waistband wai made it difficult for b me to see it that way and andI I I told him some more things The next I knew I 1 was making some me more as astronomical astronomical astronomical observations from a coign of vantage in the cobbled ditch outside and I r rose up and concluded to go away from fr m there But I was still real nan nas SsI sI ate under the neck band about the theay way ay the game gaan bed been dished us un to tome tome tome me and I started for for the Harrison street station to have hae a conversation with the man behind the desk de t about it By this time my two ears looked like they had elephantiasis Is from the th two clips I had got in the doorway when I Iwas II Iwas was separated from my little stack of I greens greene and I was wag likewise considerably muddled up UD from rota the attentions I 1 had received rt at the tho bends bands of the gent gem with the uninviting countenance behind the bar where I had started in to register my m roar So that when 1 walked Into ImO the station Im willing to acknowledge thit th t I look as aa if It Id just ju t stepped out of f a suit case The Tb man behind the desk deskI I dont know who ho he was but he looked real massive and unsympathetic was writ writing writing writIng ing in a big book bok k kSir Sir I started to say to him I 1 have unhappily been ocen fallen upon UDon by br who have han abused bused me moat most shamefully and Just then the massive man behind the de d dek k looked up He gazed ed at me right hard Say he s said W after a pause DaU its Us good o you tove cone COMe in on your Our own wn hook Zeke save us trouble wed ha 1 had to pick you yu up Then he beckoned to t t the tha doorman Go through it said the man be ba hind the he desk tc the Hie doorman indicating IndicatIng ing ling me t Then I did set up the long ong yell veil for fair fail Told em eat that I r had bad come down there to make a complaint that I had hadnot hadnot hadnot not always bean been thus thuc that they had boo wronged me in audle that Id have the lifes illes blood af of avar individual eon oni eonIa on Ia I I in hi the whole municipality of Chicago lif if I get what was coming to me and other things like that Well these little remarks that I exuded u udel nader der a profound sense of wrong helD heln hel helme me any Y at all alir They wound me up in II 4 Take it back said s d the massive man behind the desk and I was yanked back to one of those little compart compartments ments merits that have one real hard board running along one side Got it Going and Coming COniing Say how was that for a man that was born and raised right ri ht in this town that had never been pinched pinch be before before before fore to get it ft going and coming boUt both ends from the middle and not even all bets off of and twenty minutes for a new book I have a mad coming Can you blame me for not DOt right then that Chicago was the onh burg on the chart But there was nothing doing I had to stand for it I tried to get em m to let me send out for somebody to take me out of hock but they told me I r was wasa wn a four hobo and that was the end of that Then I 1 began to figure that Id be lucky if I get four months in the bridewell Sleep there was nix for me that night ni ht Somewhere above me there was wasa a 8 young lady lwy who would alternate in singing Theres a Little Green Snot with the voice of an angelI I never heard a purer sweeter voice than that unfortunate womans whoever she ahe was wasand wasand and cussing like a pirate and next to me a large chesty longshore longshoreman man mon with the cobras who had removed a considerable portion of his anatomy a with a cotton hook h ok and seemed to be quite put out because he fin finished finished her Oh yes es I had a real nice time in the Levee that ni ht htA A little after dundee e when I 1 was beginning to sympathize with myself and to compare my unhappy lot with that of the Prisoner of Chillon the clanking of keys came my way and I Iwas Iwas Iwas was herded down to the court where there were quite a lot of young y ung gen gentlemen gentlemen with cold gray eyes and little or no 00 chins who were talking about their chances of or being bound over for jobs of that sort Bort and who calculated with great interest on on the size of the bits they were due to get They gave me a chance to wash up down there and when I got before the magistrate he permitted permUted me to spiel my tale I was dead sober rober and pretty darted eloquent and I handed the old gentleman such a straight bill of lading that he just nodded me loose although I was charged with having been drunk and disorderly and resisting an officer r I walked out into the sunlight of that Sunday Sunda morning sore rore as a astone stone bruise and with half an idea of bur burrowing burrowing rowing a hole under Chicago and blow blowing blowing blowing ing it into the air I had 70 cents left leftin leftin leftin in change out of my m 48 and I 1 shot four in so quick that the speak speakeasy speakeasy easy barkeeper stared at me Then I went out and walked and thought about what a nice old town Chicago would I look in ashes I leaned against the iron fence around a church ci when I got tired walk walking walking walking ing and find I guess the drowsy music magic of the organ inside that had just started playing put me to sleep Anyhow I 1 got shook awake a ake by a it chap with a plug hat and antI a serious face His wife wIe and little tittle girl were standing some distance away way They were about to en enter enter ter tom the church I started start d down the street After I had gone about twenty feet I heard the patter of little feet and the little girl belonging to the man who had shook me awake was standing alongside along ide me with a penny that she had to put in the church box held out in her little ittle fist fiot Offered Alms By a Child I Will oo 00 take zis poor Door man she said to me and not wanting to ItO snub the child chUd I took the penny and walked on Say how hen ho was that Enough to make a So man fall fail in love Jove I e with the situation it Little girls on the street taking me for such a castaway on the shores shor of time me that hadn done a athing athing athing thing but push in itt a 8 few hooters the night before to efface ettace temporarily the ineffable ble sorrow of life that they felt like staking taking me to pennies Tm rm going away from this said I II right off then and it was also then that I scratched Chicago I had in my I pocket a ticket on a railroad going east and I got on a train just thirty minutes later and never got off I until the steam rattler pulled into De Do Detroit Detroit troit I wanted to get right far away from front Chicago as I any aay Oh well yes I came back The man nyan with a 8 grievance against this town hang on nn to it long The old hunch to be back in the real puddle gets get you o ou up around the neck when youre long enough in one of the imitation Imitation tion burgs to get to thinking and what happened to me I peddled tin and silk aUk ilk badges at the fair grounds in Detroit trying to make enough to stake myself to a ride back to Chicago but I get g t hold of enough of the pa papers papers papers pers to do it that way the best I could do was to seize out enough to get wooz ed 00 up In Ia my rn longing to be hack in this little old town and it looked like De Detroit Detroit troit forever and a day for me when one morning I walked down to the Windsor ferryboat mt and bought a bunch of tickets for some rides back and forth I 1 wanted to make myself think I was riding on a 8 ferry around this neck of it H When I got over to the dinky little Ca Canadian Canadian nadian fan town of Windsor the second time I 1 concluded to get off and take a 8 walk around Then I came back to take the ferry to Detroit again I was Wag I about a block from the Windsor ferry I house when a chap with a foreign accent tackled me |
